来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：古希腊历史简介 第5集 第5集》

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  but we are talking not about
  但是我们现在讨论的
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  the emergence of an agricultural aristocracy,
  不是一个农业贵族的产生
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  but we are talking about the emergence of
  而是谈论关于小家庭
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  an agricultural community of small family farms.
  农作村社是如何产生的
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  One of the things that come with the development of
  这种小家庭农业的发展
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  this kind of agriculture as the polis is
  是随着各城邦开始采用
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  coming into being is slavery.
  奴隶制度而发展起来的
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  Now, of course, slavery is as old almost as the human race,
  当然 奴隶制度和人类本身一样古老
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  and it certainly was already present in the world of Homer,
  显然 它在荷马时代就已经出现了
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  but it looks like in the Dark Ages
  但是 在黑暗时代
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  there were very few slaves around
  那时候没多少奴隶
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  just because owning slaves requires wealth.
  因为要拥有奴隶你必须很富有